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Juan’s Three Things on Fintech – Are Virtual Financial Assistants Old News?

Now that I have your attention thanks to the title of this post – a Product Evangelist for a company building Virtual Financial Assistants couldn’t possibly be calling them “old news” right? – let me explain.  I recently received an email promoting an upcoming AI conference and the first paragraph stated that this year’s conference […]

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Juan’s Three Things on Fintech – The Positive Side Effects of Working from Home

Thanks to the pandemic, 2020 has been an unprecedented year for everyone and virtually every industry, including Fintech. We’ve all spent more time at home and many of us have transitioned to working remotely. While this increased time at home has presented many challenges (some of which, like background distractions, you’ll see in this video), […]

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Bot Thoughts from the World’s Largest Fintech Conference

Money20/20 is the world’s largest fintech conference. Because banking is always cited as a use case of bots, I wanted to share my thoughts on what’s happening in the space. My single biggest takeaway from Money20/20 Intelligent conversational software will eliminate the cognitive load required to plan and manage a person’s financial life. These intelligent […]

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A bot walks into a bank…

This past April, it wasn’t Steve Jobs on stage, it was Mark Zuckerberg. At the annual F8 developers conference, Facebook announced the opening up of its Messenger API, meaning that the social network was betting big on bots. For today’s banking executives, this “app” thing has now become this “bot” thing. Conversation is the new UI As […]

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